126. Hindu-Muslim harmony in India. P S Remesh Chandran

126

Hindu-Muslim harmony in India

P S Remesh Chandran

Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum
 Article Title Image By Sidhant Shreshtha. Graphics: Adobe SP.

For centuries the Hindus and the Muslims of India lived in harmony in the villages and cities, freely intermingling with each other. When drought comes, they share water and in famine, food. Fire, flood, famine and natural disasters have seen millions of incidents of their sacrifices for each other. Now when we go to some part of India with the intention of purchasing a house and living there, we are told that this particular area is a Hindu area or a Muslim area and so you cannot purchase a house there and live there. It is the uneducated zealots in the political and administrative layers of Indian society who brought about this polarized situation without which they cannot survive either in politics or in administration. Even the socialist and communist parties of India fix their candidates in the elections depending upon first their religion, then their caste and lastly their wealth. Who will and can deny that this is exactly what creates mistrust among people and obstruct the progress of India. The constitution of India boasts, it allows no communal discrimination and stipulates severe punishments for those who keep practicing such discrimination. Still, India was divided into two, based on religious distinctions. We all know that intelligence is what decides things as far as man is concerned. So let us decide to adopt an entrance test based on measuring the intelligence quotient of anyone who wants to become a parliament or state legislative assembly member in India, the world’s largest home of the Hindus where they co-exist with Muslims. Either give a chance to Indian parliamentarians to prove that they are intelligent enough to lead the country and control its people, brilliant officers, academicians, industrialists, army, navy, air force, foreign affairs and economy, in communal harmony or withdraw from politics and administration. Nincompoops and arrogant blunderers cannot carry forward this nation even not through another decade. Even to be recruited as a peon to government service needs one to prove his intelligence. Let anyone who wishes to control the government in India prove his intelligence before their citizens. If they fail the test, they are out! We all know that not one single political party in India would acquiesce to this kind of a reformation in Indian parliamentarianism, yet this would be the greatest reformation the world is going to see happening in India in the coming 10 years. 

[In response to news article ‘Hinduism third largest religion of world; India home to most religions’ in First Post on 19 December 2012, written on 26 December 2012]